hop-o'-my-thumbn.

/ˈhɒpəmɪˌθʌm/

Forms: Also 1500s hopthumb, 1800s hop-me-thumb.

Etymology: In 16th cent., hop on my thombe , < hop v.¹ (in imperative mood), applied to a person so small that he may be hyperbolically told to hop on one's thumb: compare stick-in-the-mud, pick-me-up.

A dwarf, a pygmy: the name of a pygmy hero of nursery lore. Cf. Tom Thumb n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person

dwarfeOE

congeonc1230

go-by-ground?a1300

smalla1300

shrimpc1386

griga1400

gruba1400

murche1440

nirvil1440

mitinga1450

witherling1528

wretchocka1529

elf1530

hop-o'-my-thumb1530

pygmy1533

little person1538

manikin1540

mankin1552

dandiprat1556

yrle1568

grundy1570

Jack Sprat1570

squall1570

manling1573

Tom Thumb1579

pinka1585

squib1586

screaling1594

giant-dwarf1598

twattle1598

agate1600

minimus1600

cock sparrow1602

dapperling1611

modicum1611

scrub1611

sesquipedalian1615

dwarflinga1618

wretchcock1641

homuncio1643

whip-handle1653

homuncule1656

whippersnapper1674

chitterling1675

sprite1684

carliea1689

urling1691

wirling1691

dwarf man1699

poppet1699

durgan1706

short-arse1706

tomtit1706

Lilliputian1726

wallydraigle1736

midge1757

minikin1761

squeeze-crab1785

minimum1796

niff-naff1808

titman1818

teetotum1822

squita1825

cradden1825

nyaff1825

weed1825

pinkeen1850

fingerling1864

Lilliput1867

thumbling1867

midget1869

inch1884

shorty1888

titch1888

skimpling1890

stub1890

scrap1898

pygmoid1922

lofty1933

peewee1935

smidgen1952

pint-size1954

pint-sized1973

munchkin1974

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/1 Hoppe upon my thombe, fretillon.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Dii It is a small hop on my thomb. And Christ wot, It is wood at a woorde.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 74 A cockney dandiprat hopthumb.

1594 Taming of a Shrew Plaine friend hop of my thum, know you who we are?

1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iv. i. 53 You little Hop o' my thumb come hither.

1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 67 He was a hop-o'-my-thumb no higher than the window-locker.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxvii. 255 This little hop-o-my-thumb of a creature has begun to give herself airs since her marriage and her carriage.

attributive.1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xi. 81 You pitiful, hop o' my thumb coxcomb.1819 Sporting Mag. 4 272 I cannot..help laughing at such hop-me-thumb fellows.1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 June 1/2 Austria is a mere Hop-o'-my-Thumb Power excepting so far as she is backed by Germany.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	hop-o-my-thumb
释义	hop-o'-my-thumbn. /ˈhɒpəmɪˌθʌm/ Forms: Also 1500s hopthumb, 1800s hop-me-thumb. Etymology: In 16th cent., hop on my thombe , < hop v.¹ (in imperative mood), applied to a person so small that he may be hyperbolically told to hop on one's thumb: compare stick-in-the-mud, pick-me-up. A dwarf, a pygmy: the name of a pygmy hero of nursery lore. Cf. Tom Thumb n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person dwarfeOE congeonc1230 go-by-ground?a1300 smalla1300 shrimpc1386 griga1400 gruba1400 murche1440 nirvil1440 mitinga1450 witherling1528 wretchocka1529 elf1530 hop-o'-my-thumb1530 pygmy1533 little person1538 manikin1540 mankin1552 dandiprat1556 yrle1568 grundy1570 Jack Sprat1570 squall1570 manling1573 Tom Thumb1579 pinka1585 squib1586 screaling1594 giant-dwarf1598 twattle1598 agate1600 minimus1600 cock sparrow1602 dapperling1611 modicum1611 scrub1611 sesquipedalian1615 dwarflinga1618 wretchcock1641 homuncio1643 whip-handle1653 homuncule1656 whippersnapper1674 chitterling1675 sprite1684 carliea1689 urling1691 wirling1691 dwarf man1699 poppet1699 durgan1706 short-arse1706 tomtit1706 Lilliputian1726 wallydraigle1736 midge1757 minikin1761 squeeze-crab1785 minimum1796 niff-naff1808 titman1818 teetotum1822 squita1825 cradden1825 nyaff1825 weed1825 pinkeen1850 fingerling1864 Lilliput1867 thumbling1867 midget1869 inch1884 shorty1888 titch1888 skimpling1890 stub1890 scrap1898 pygmoid1922 lofty1933 peewee1935 smidgen1952 pint-size1954 pint-sized1973 munchkin1974 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/1 Hoppe upon my thombe, fretillon. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Dii It is a small hop on my thomb. And Christ wot, It is wood at a woorde. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 74 A cockney dandiprat hopthumb. 1594 Taming of a Shrew Plaine friend hop of my thum, know you who we are? 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iv. i. 53 You little Hop o' my thumb come hither. 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 67 He was a hop-o'-my-thumb no higher than the window-locker. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxvii. 255 This little hop-o-my-thumb of a creature has begun to give herself airs since her marriage and her carriage. attributive.1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xi. 81 You pitiful, hop o' my thumb coxcomb.1819 Sporting Mag. 4 272 I cannot..help laughing at such hop-me-thumb fellows.1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 June 1/2 Austria is a mere Hop-o'-my-Thumb Power excepting so far as she is backed by Germany. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1530
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